From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 3 05:44:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA23721 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 05:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA23543 Fri, 3 May 1996 05:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA15182; Fri, 3 May 1996 15:49:53 +0300 Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:49:53 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Chuck Robey cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 1996, Narvi wrote: > > > > Jonathan, I was looking at the new Tyan MB's, they say that they use IDE > > > bus mastering, and claim a major speed increase. I am not sure (I am a > > > SCSI bigot myself) but maybe yours claims of SCSI dominanace over > > > IDE won't be so automatically true shortly. > > > > I have a strane feeling all Triton motherboards have the feature(?) as the > > IDE controller is part of the chipset. Or am I again remebering falsely? > > Perhaps not as Win95 tends to recognise it's there (but say that bus > > mastering is not supported). So are 486 motherboards based on the SiS > > chipset and most probably also several others. > > > > Narvi, I was referring to the new Triton II boards. Take a look at ^^^^^^ ? Read LoTR again. > http://www.tyan.com, they are offering drivers (for Win95) that do > bus-mastering for IDE. I guess the hardware solution is out. I will > have one of these boards myself shortly (whee!) but I don't run IDE, so I > won't get involved with that part of it. > It doesn't matter, whetever it is Triton II or not - it is not the only one, and driver's are also out for the others (for SCO with SiS chipset and perhaps also others, I don't know about BM - haven't tried). The trick is that there are several boards and chipsets out with PCI IDE busmasters but no FreeBSD drivers for them. Besides, I don't think the IDE parts of Triton/Triton II would be much different - it wouldn't make much sense. > ========================================================================== > Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 > > Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, > Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, > Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, > One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game > In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. > One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, > One Account to make them all and in the network bind them. > > > Sander